Publications
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Public Writing & Media
Research Articles
Pandemic politics: The acceleration of democratic erosion and autocratization in Indonesia during Covid-19
Schäfer, S., Syam, M. (2025) | Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft.
Living together beyond liberal democracy: Examples of local decision-making and managing resource extractivism in Indonesia.
Schäfer, S., Syam, M., & Gogali, L. (2025). | Frontiers in Political Science.
Contextualizing the contextualizers: How the area studies controversy is different in different places
Busse, J., Valbjørn, M., Doolotkeldieva, A., Ortmann, S., Smith, K., Shami, S., Costa, S., Weipert-Fenner, I., Wolff, J., Schäfer, S., & Osterberg-Kaufmann, N. (2024) | International Studies Review, 26(1), viad056
Political homophobia: The rise of anti-queer rhetoric in Indonesia and Turkey
Schäfer, S. (2024) | Journal of Language and Politics, 23(2)
Who belongs where? Geographies of (inter)religion and urban segregation in Surabaya, Indonesia
Mulya, T. W., & Schäfer, S. (2023) | Cities, 141, 104476
Islam Nusantara: The conceptual vocabulary of Indonesian diversity
Schäfer, S. (2021) | ISLAM NUSANTARA: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture, 2(2), 1–16
Breeding roses and chasing unicorns: Reflections from Europe on the changing field of Southeast Asian area studies
Schäfer, S. (2020) | International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 51(3-4), 31–48
Democratic decline in Indonesia: The role of religious authorities
Schäfer, S. (2019) | Pacific Affairs, 92(2), 235–255
Islam in the echo chamber: Homogenisation and polarisation in Indonesia and Malaysia
Schäfer, S. (2018) | Asiascape: Digital Asia, 5(1-2), 124–158
Ahmadis or Indonesians? The polarization of post-reform public debates on Islam and orthodoxy
Schäfer, S. (2018) | Critical Asian Studies, 50(1), 1–19
Public Writing & Media
Contrastet revolutions. Review of Republicanism, Communism, Islam by John Sidel
Schäfer, S. (2021) | New Left Review, 129, 125-134
Are We Experiencing a New Age of Extremes?
BBC Historx Magazine, 2018
The Right-Wing Rot at the Heart of the German State
with Thomas Meaney | Translated into French, Greek and Portuguese | New York Times, 3 October 2018
(K)eine Minderheit – Muslime zwischen Inklusion und Diskriminierung
Translated into Catalan, English, French, Italian, Maltese and Spanish | Treffpunkt Europa, 27 March 2017
The neo-Nazi murder trial revealing Germany’s darkest secrets
with Thomas Meaney | The Guardian Long Read, 15 December 2016
A Strategy for Culture
The Times Literary Supplement, 4 February 2016
Participation or Exclusion? Old and New City Walls in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur
Translated into Arabic | Fikrun W Fann (Art and Thought) 104, Goethe Institute, November 2015, p. 70-74
Indonesien: Autokratie vs. Demokratie
Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 10/2015: 29-32
Jokowi’s Way
with Thomas Meaney | The Nation (US), 22 September 2014
Indonesien steht vor einer unsicheren Zukunft
Deutschlandradio Kultur, 28 July 2014